Fiber dispersion and dispersion slope compensation in a 40-channel 10-Gb/s 3200-km transmission experiment using cascaded single-cavity Gires-Tournois etalons

Author

Yang, D. ; Lin, C. ; Chen, W. ; Barbarossa, G.

Author_Institution

Avanex Corp., Fremont, CA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

299

Lastpage

301

Abstract

We propose a fiber dispersion and dispersion slope compensator using cascaded single-cavity Gires-Tournois etalons. We compare optical signal-to-noise ratio and bit-error-rate measurements between our proposed compensator and dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) in a 40-channel 10-Gb/s 3200-km transmission experiment. Our results show that the cascaded Gires-Tournois etalons performed as well as or better than the DCF.

Keywords

all-pass filters; compensation; error statistics; interference filters; interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; 10 Gbit/s; 3200 km; 40-channel transmission experiment; Gires-Tournois etalons; bit-error-rate; cascaded single-cavity etalons; customized optimization algorithm; dispersion slope compensator; fiber dispersion compensator; nonreturn-to-zero formal; optical filters; optical signal-to-noise ratio; periodic group delay behavior; pseudorandom bit sequence; Delay; Insertion loss; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical ring resonators; Reflectivity; Resonator filters; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.820106

Filename

1256031